Re: serial port and external modem
Mike,
The cuaX devices are dead, no lights blinking.
The tr light blinks once and then stays on and the
td light is blinking a couple of times.
I used a straight thru cable to hook up the modem to port "A".
Lolke Bijlsma
lbijlsma@enteract.com
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:57:22AM -0400, Pento, Mike wrote:
> Hmmm... that's odd. I would try cuaX devices maybe ....
>
> Which lights are you getting on the modem when hooking up? That's a
> good sign by the way... :-)
>
> Mike
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> Michael J. Pento
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: L Bijlsma [SMTP:lbijlsma@enteract.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:54 AM
> > To: Pento, Mike
> > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: serial port and external modem
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the reply but this doesn't work on our Sparc 5. I'm
> > using minicom to communicate with the modem, when I hook it up
> > to intel box running Slink I get the familiar OK prompt.
> > On the Sparc when I hook it up to port "A" and choose any of the
> > /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/ttyS3 and sent the modem initialization string I see
> > some of the light blinking on the modem but I don't get an OK prompt.
> > Port "B" seems to be dead, not responses from the modem.
> >
> > The funny thing is that for all the ttyS* I get the same behaviour and
> > that doesn't sound right.
> >
> > Any clue's?
> >
> > Lolke Bijlsma
> > lbijlsma@enteract.com
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:36:01AM -0400, Pento, Mike wrote:
> > > This is going to sound insane but ...
> > >
> > > I have a SPARC IPC, I had the same trouble and found that on my
> > > machine, cua0 corresponds to port "B" on the back of the cpu. I have
> > mine on
> > > the net with a 33.6 modem and it works great. I haven't messed with the
> > > other port yet, I have no idea what that it.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > --
> > > Michael J. Pento
> > > TAC Worldwide Companies
> > > PC Services - IC Analyst
> > > mpento@1tac.com
> > > (617)-969-3100 ext. 374
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: L Bijlsma [SMTP:lbijlsma@enteract.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:33 AM
> > > > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > > > Subject: serial port and external modem
> > > >
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > We've got a Sun Sparc 5 sitting around and we've installed slink on
> > it. So
> > > > far
> > > > so good. We'd like to hook up an external modem to one of the serial
> > ports
> > > > (back side of Sparc has two serial ports, A and B). I've tried it but
> > > > couldn't get it to work.
> > > > During bootup the configuration of the serial ports fails but
> > according
> > > > to earlier posts on the mailing list it doesn't affect whether
> > > > the serial ports work or not.
> > > >
> > > > setserial reports an unknown uart type and on intel boxes this means
> > > > trouble so it this also true for Sparc boxes?
> > > >
> > > > Any help is appreciated,
> > > >
> > > > Lolke Bijlsma
> > > > lbijlsma@enteract.com
> > > >
> > > >
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